Category: Personal Information

Protecting confidential information: Protectable interests?

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Privacy protection scope: Freedom of expression

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Unenforceable restraint agreement: Balancing of interests

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Disclosing relevant documents: Affecting reasonable expectation

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Positive cannabis test: Discrimination and privacy

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Business email compromise: Wrongful and negligent?

H v ENS Inc In context of BEC (business email compromise) when should the law recognise a legal duty of care when invoices are sent for payment? [131] The interests of the defendant as well as the society demand that a legal...

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Personal freedom paramount: Private prosecution?

President of RSA vs Zuma In context of private prosecutions what other constitutional paramount rights are threatened apart from personal freedom and dignity? “[13]   . . . . There may be several other respects in which...

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Access to information ordered: PAJA s 78(2)(d)(i)

Goosen-Joubert v Women4Women NPC Why was access to information ordered by the high court and what were the reasons for making that order? “[73] In my view, the applicant has made out a proper case that entitles her to the...

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Protected disclosures considered: Automatically unfair

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Unprotected personal information: Expression and privacy

Smuts v Botha The issue concerned unprotected personal information and SCA allowed the appeal and decided that personal information was in the public domain before the posts were published and ownership of the farm was a matter...

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Disclosing taxpayer information: Balance conflicting interests

Arena Holdings (Pty) Ltd v SARS (Jacob Zuma) High court dealt with a dispute concerning disclosing taxpayer information and ordered SARS to disclose the tax returns of the former president for the 2010 to 2018 tax years after...

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Class action certified: Coupled with interim relief

Stellenbosch University Law Clinic v Lifestyle Direct Group International (Pty) Ltd Class action certified by high court after recalling the history and development of the concept in theory and practice both in the USA and South...

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